Broadway Blog - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/10 & Algonquin Round Table Quote of the Week

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"

-- Edna Ferber

The grosses are out for the week ending 5/10/2009 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (15.7%), ACCENT ON YOUTH (15.2%), WAITING FOR GODOT (14.9%), NEXT TO NORMAL (14.0%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (12.8%), IRENA'S VOW (8.8%), IMPRESSIONISM (8.0%), EXIT THE KING (6.5%), SHREK THE MUSICAL (5.7%), REASONS TO BE PRETTY (5.3%), GUYS AND DOLLS (3.9%), SOUTH PACIFIC (3.7%), BLITHE SPIRIT (3.6%), GOD OF CARNAGE (3.2%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (2.1%), IN THE HEIGHTS (2.0%), 33 VARIATIONS (1.4%), WEST SIDE STORY (1.0%), JERSEY BOYS (0.7%),

Down for the week was: CHICAGO (-9.5%), AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (-8.8%), AVENUE Q (-8.1%), DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (-7.3%), 9 TO 5 (-6.3%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-6.3%), MAMMA MIA! (-6.3%), THE PHILANTHROPIST (-6.3%), THE 39 STEPS (-5.8%), THE LION KING (-2.8%), MARY POPPINS (-2.4%), HAIR (-1.5%), ROCK OF AGES (-0.8%), WICKED (-0.4%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (-0.1%),